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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Campbell , Charles 1807 -1876 (search)
Campbell, Charles 1807-1876
Historian; born in Petersburg, Va., May 1, 1807; graduated at Princeton College in 1825, and became a teacher.
He was a member of the Virginia Historical Society, and a contributor to the Historical register.
He edited the Orderly book of Gen. Andrew Lewis in 1776, and published An introduction to the history of the colony and ancient Dominion of Virginia; Genealogy of the Spotswood family.
He died in Staunton, Va., July 11, 1876.
Cheyenne Indians
One of the most westerly tribes of the Algonquian nation.
They were seated on the Cheyenne, a branch of the Red River of the North.
Driven by the Sioux, they retreated beyond the Missouri.
Near the close of the eighteenth century they were driven to or near the Black Hills (now in the Dakotas and Wyoming), where Lewis and Clarke found them in 1804, when they possessed horses and made plundering raids as far as New Mexico.
See Clarke, George Rogers; Lewis, Meriwether.
About 1825, when they were at peace with the Sioux, and making war upon the Pawnees, Kansas, and other tribes, a feud occurred in the family.
A part of them remained with the Sioux, and the others went south to the Arkansas River and joined the Arapahoes.
Many treaties were made with them by agents of the United States, but broken; and, finally, losing all confidence in the honor of the white race, they began hostilities in 1861.
This was the first time that the Cheyennes were at war with t
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Clark , William 1770 -1838 (search)
Clark, William 1770-1838
Military officer; born in Virginia, Aug. 1, 1770; removed to what is now Louisville, Ky., in 1784.
He was appointed an ensign in the army in 1788; promoted lieutenant of infantry in 1792; and appointed a member of Captain Lewis's expedition to the mouth of the Columbia River in 1804.
The success of the expedition was largely due to his knowledge of Indian habits.
Afterwards he was made brigadier-general for the Territory of upper Louisiana; in 1813-21 was governor of the Mississippi Territory; and in 1822-38 superintendent of Indian affairs in St. Louis.
He died in St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 1, 1838.
See Clark, George Rogers; Lewis, Meriwether.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dunmore , John Murray , Earl of, 1732 -1809 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fleming , Thomas 1727 -1776 (search)
Fleming, Thomas 1727-1776
Military officer; born in Botetourt county, Va., in 1727; took part in the great battle of Point Pleasant in 1774 between 1,000 Indians, under Cornstalk, and 400 whites, under Gen. Andrew Lewis.
During the fight Colonel Fleming was severely wounded, one ball passing through his breast and another through his arm. At the outbreak of the Revolutionary War he was made colonel of the 9th Virginia Regiment, but in consequence of disease and wounds, died in camp in August, 1776.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Frenchtown , massacre at. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hart , Albert Bushnell 1854 - (search)
Lewis, Andrew 1730-
Military officer; born in Donegal, Ireland, in 1730, of a Huguenot family which came to Virginia in 1732.
Andrew was a volunteer to take possession of the Ohio region in 1754; was with Washington; and was major of a Virginian regiment at Braddock's defeat.
In the expedition under Major Grant, in 1758, he was made prisoner and taken to Montreal.
In 1768 he was a commissioner to treat with the Indians at Fort Stanwix; was appointed a brigadier-general in 1774, and on Oct. 10, that year, he fought a severe battle with a formidable Indian force at Point Pleasant, and gained a victory.
In the Virginia House of Burgesses, and in the field, he was a bold patriot.
A colonel in the army, he commanded the Virginia troops that drove Lord Dunmore from Virginian waters.
In that expedition he caught a cold, from the effects of which he died, in Bedford county, Sept. 26, 1781.
His four brothers —Samuel, Thomas.
Charles, and William —were all distinguished in military
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Point Pleasant , battle of. (search)
Point Pleasant, battle of.
Col. Andrew Lewis led the left wing of the Virginia forces in Dunmore's War in the summer and autumn of 1774.
He had about 1,200 men, and, crossing the mountain-ranges, struck the Great Kanawha and followed it to the Ohio, and there encamped, Oct. 6.
Expecting Dunmore with the right wing, he did not cast up intrenchments, and in this exposed situation was attacked (Oct. 10) by 1,000 chosen warriors of the Western Confederacy, led by the giant chief Cornstalk, who came from Pickaway Plains, and Logan, the Mingo chief.
So stealthily did the Indians approach that within an hour after they were discovered a bloody battle was raging.
It continued several hours, the Indians slowly retreating from tree to tree, while Cornstalk encouraged them with the words, Be strong!
A desultory fire was kept up until sunset; and during the night the Indians retreated, having lost, in killed and wounded, about 150 men. The Virginians lost about one-half their commissio